Gibraltar general election, 2003

28 November 2003

15 seats to the Gibraltar House of Assembly 8 seats were needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Peter Caruana	Joe Bossano
Party	Social Democrats	Socialist Labour
Alliance		Liberal
Leader since	1996	1978
Last election	8 (out of 15) (58.35%)	7 (out of 15) (40.57%)
Seats won	8	7
Seat change
Percentage	51.0%	40.0%

Chief Minister before election

Peter Caruana
Social Democrats

Elected Chief Minister

Peter Caruana
Social Democrats

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General elections were held in Gibraltar on 28 November 2003. They were won by Peter Caruana's Gibraltar Social Democrats (GSD), who took over 50% of the popular vote and 8 of the 15 available seats, making this their third successive win.

Results

Summary of the 28 November 2003 Gibraltar House of Assembly election results
Parties		Votes	%	Seats
Gibraltar Social Democrats (GSD)		58,234	51.0	8
Coalition	Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party (GSLP)	28,382	40.0	5
Coalition	Gibraltar Liberal Party (GLP)	16,538	40.0	2
Gibraltar Labour Party		9,445	8.0	New
Gibraltar Reform Party		578	1.0
Ex-officio members (retired under the new 2006 constitution (came into effect on January 2nd, 2007))		N/A	N/A	2
Total (turnout 79.18%)		113,177	100	17
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Results of the 2003 Gibraltar Elections

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